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On-and-off staffer to Sen. Luján heads to lobbying firm

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 6, 2023

One of Sen. Ben Ray Luján's (D-N.M.) original House hires just keeps coming and going.

Aaron Trujillo, most recently Luján's deputy chief of staff, recently left the Senate for Strategies 360, where he's now vice president for federal relations. The firm made about $3.6 million in federal lobbying revenue in 2022, up 50% from the $2.3 million it brought in the year before.

Trujillo worked with Luján on and off since 2009, when he joined the then-freshman representative's congressional office as a legislative correspondent. He rose through the ranks before leaving for the Department of Commerce, only to return as a senior adviser to Luján at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He later worked as a lobbyist and vice president at Fulcrum Public Affairs before moving to Luján's Senate office, where he has worked since 2021.